Solo walking in London is one of my very favorite things. It was interesting to take my family there last year and see my kids seeing the city—and to have my family’s interests take me to parts of the city I’d never had reason to explore previously. Seeing my son get really into the street art in Whitechapel and Shoreditch was really cool!
Okay first of all WHAT I didn't expect this to be the first thing I saw this morning so what a thing to wake up to.
I cried listening to this because:
1. Quantum physics is an amateur jam of mine and this metaphor was SO APT
2. The "exploring" thing. Oh my god yes. I wasn't allowed to go off on my own much as a kid but I had a few places where I made it count, and as an adult it is one of my very favorite things. The first time I remember really doing it was on my first business trip, after a huge marital phone fight; and I just lost myself on the streets of downtown Palo Alto. My time in NYC was heaven for this. And I get the perspective part too, so much - my own pace, my own direction, looking at the things that are interesting to me, without feeling like I'm boring other people or taking them away from what they want to be doing (I've annoyed people so much with this). With other people there's almost always an agenda superimposed on the walk that limits how much I can take in and discover. (almost always. :) )
So yes, this made me feel really seen, and thank you for that. Also the cats do love scritches, which is what my dad always requests I pass on to them, and I will do so as soon as I get out of bed.
But isn't it so true that the perspectives of others, the eyes of others, do shift our own perception of the world around us, changes the way we observe things? There's truth there that I'm gonna be pondering.
Solo walking in London is one of my very favorite things. It was interesting to take my family there last year and see my kids seeing the city—and to have my family’s interests take me to parts of the city I’d never had reason to explore previously. Seeing my son get really into the street art in Whitechapel and Shoreditch was really cool!
Okay first of all WHAT I didn't expect this to be the first thing I saw this morning so what a thing to wake up to.
I cried listening to this because:
1. Quantum physics is an amateur jam of mine and this metaphor was SO APT
2. The "exploring" thing. Oh my god yes. I wasn't allowed to go off on my own much as a kid but I had a few places where I made it count, and as an adult it is one of my very favorite things. The first time I remember really doing it was on my first business trip, after a huge marital phone fight; and I just lost myself on the streets of downtown Palo Alto. My time in NYC was heaven for this. And I get the perspective part too, so much - my own pace, my own direction, looking at the things that are interesting to me, without feeling like I'm boring other people or taking them away from what they want to be doing (I've annoyed people so much with this). With other people there's almost always an agenda superimposed on the walk that limits how much I can take in and discover. (almost always. :) )
So yes, this made me feel really seen, and thank you for that. Also the cats do love scritches, which is what my dad always requests I pass on to them, and I will do so as soon as I get out of bed.
But isn't it so true that the perspectives of others, the eyes of others, do shift our own perception of the world around us, changes the way we observe things? There's truth there that I'm gonna be pondering.